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...provided a blunt reminder that even billionaires can get in over their heads. With their dreams of cashing in on last winter's silver boom now transformed into mushrooming debts of $980 million, Bunker, Herbert and Lamar Hunt have been struggling all spring to fend off ruin. Papers on file last week in the Dallas County Courthouse, and elsewhere around the country, showed just how desperate their plight has become, as well as the extent of their fabled wealth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Aw Gee, Guys | 6/9/1980 | See Source »

...vehicles. Claimed Joe Sheely, 26, a resident of the neighborhood: "They were getting a kick out of it." Four Miami police officers were suspended from duty for the vandalism, and Miami Mayor Maurice Ferre declared, "It burns the hell out of me to see one or two bums ruin the reputation of 700 dedicated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Fire and Fury in Miami | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

...Mount Pelee, a long-dormant volcano on the island of Martinique, exploded, sending a huge cloud of dust, steam and gas, believed to be as hot as 1,800° F over the town of Saint-Pierre. Within minutes the town was a smoldering ruin, and 29,933 inhabitants were dead. Only four residents are known to have survived, including a convicted murderer who was imprisoned in a dungeon cell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Since Vesuvius | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

...myth of King Midas is that everything he touched turned to gold. The reality of President Carter is that everything he touches turns to ruin. America needs a President who was born under a lucky star...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 26, 1980 | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

While we are clogging the roads on the way to the ballparks, race tracks and gambling casinos, what right do we have asking our allies to ruin themselves by joining our Iranian boycott...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 19, 1980 | 5/19/1980 | See Source »

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